Table 2.

Associations between physical activity and blood lipids

Physical activity	TC [mg/dl]	HDL [mg/dl]	LDL [mg/dl]	TG [mg/dl]
Sedentary [%]	R = − 0.17	R = − 0.24	R = − 0.09	R = − 0.00
	p = 0.162	p = 0.046	p = 0.543	p = 0.998
Light [%]	R = 0.19	R = 0.23	R = 0.12	R = 0.03
	p = 0.127	p = 0.054	p = 0.414	p = 0.832
Moderate [%]	R = 0.05	R = 0.17	R = − 0.07	R = 0.02
	p = 0.701	p = 0.164	p = 0.653	p = 0.859
Vigorous [%]	R = 0.11	R = − 0.04	R = 0.00	R = − 0.14
	p = 0.361	p = 0.708	p = 0.988	p = 0.260
Total MVPA [minutes]	R = 0.05	R = 0.15	R = 0.01	R = − 0.03
	p = 0.686	p = 0.233	p = 0.972	p = 0.838
MVPA [%]	R = 0.01	R = 0.12	R = − 0.05	R = − 0.06
	p = 0.930	p = 0.310	p = 0.731	p = 0.631
Average MVPA per day [minutes]	R = 0.02	R = 0.10	R = −0.01	R = − 0.04
	p = 0.901	p = 0.405	p = 0.962	p = 0.745
CPM	R = 0.07	R = 0.20	R = 0.05	R = − 0.06
	p = 0.556	p = 0.096	p = 0.716	p = 0.633
Steps per day	R = 0.05	R = 0.06	R = 0.05	R = 0.08
	p = 0.679	p = 0.575	p = 0.739	p = 0.504

CPM counts per minute, HDL high density lipoprotein, LDL low density lipoprotein, MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, R the result of the Spearman rank correlation test, TC total cholesterol, TG triglycerides